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Joey Galloway, like each of us, is marching inexorably towards death, and his production is going to have to drop off at some point. We'd be lucky to get two more solid years out of him, and I don't think his replacement is on the roster. We actually had Ike Hilliard returning punts last year. And as was the case when we had 47-year-old Tim Brown returning punts a few years ago, there was a fair catch called for every single time. I say cut him. Stovall has been a non-person since we drafted him. Like Michael Clayton, he's good at all of the little things--blocking, kick return coverage, etc.--but can't seem to catch any balls.

Seriously, man. I'm getting killed on my YouTube comments page.

Agreed. I think Archuleta would have benefitted immensely by winning, whereas I don't think Cook really needed to. Having his name attached to that insipid songwriting-contest single will only serve to harm his (ahem) rock cred.

Not to make excuses (although that's exactly what I'm going to do), but you could tell that the Spurs were worn out by the 4th quarter. Bear in mind that this team had to win a game 7 in New Orleans, then got stuck on the runway for 11 hours prior to flying to L.A. No less an authority than Skip Bayless just said that his sources in San Antonio admitted that the Spurs were more or less willing to concede game 1 in this series, and were actually surprised to be up by so much in the 3rd. I don't know. There's a lot from the first game that bodes well for each team, so it seems like this is going to be a really tight series all the way through. I'm sticking with my prediction of San Antonio in seven.

George Michael.

Happy 27th birthday, Retired Gimmick Poster!

It's still fairly reasonable down here. I generally pay somewhere between $2.75-$3.50 for a pack. It was outrageous in Washington. I bummed a ton of cigarettes off of my sister because I couldn't stomach spending $7 on a pack of Basics.

I'm assuming that the producers foist those awful inspirational songs on the last two contestants because they own the rights, and thus make more money when it's released as a single.

I mentioned one of my moments of e-triumph to a real-life friend once. I think it was something really internet-specific and nerdy, like the Avril board invasion or something. She didn't seem impressed.

Furthermore, he's not even dead yet. I'm aware that the prognosis isn't good, but these news outlets should save the eulogizing for when the guy actually dies.

Television Personalities- And Don't the Kids Just Love It I'm enjoying this quite a bit.

They totally made American Pie 2, though. Their hit single "Be Like That" working in concert with Jason Biggs fucking a pie and Eugene Levy arching his gigantic eyebrows in horror made for a potent brew. One of my most unforgettable moments at the theater in 2001, without a doubt.

In fairness to the judges, Archuleta was clearly better tonight, with the exception of the reprise of his dreadful version of "Imagine."

I don't actually wish harm on the guy. "I hope they break his fucking fingers" just has a nicer ring to it than, say, "I hope they can contain him defensively."

I hope they break his fucking fingers. Spurs in 7, Pistons in 6.

So it all comes down to this. We have a guy with all of the crossover potential (but none of the queer street cred) of Clay Aiken taking on a guy who at his top-dollar best would be a third-rate Jon Bon Jovi. I'm gonna chug a ton of Coke and rev the Ford's engine for a while, because it's just about Idol finale time!

"Girly" like coked-up L.A. rock dudes in drag? Or "girly" like sensitive and thoughtful?

Sometimes I wish I'd never been born at all.

If you'd somehow had the foresight to be born a day earlier, you could have seen a no-hitter. Oh, well. Happy birthday, anyway.

Yes. I watched Raiders of the Lost Ark on Spike yesterday and was quite smitten with the actress. Despite it not being set in the 80s, the actress in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom had a bad case of 80s poodle hair.

Jumping may have gone out of fashion, but the BUTT is still an active muse.

In the plotting recent rock history, where was the point at which grunge died off and this sort of thing became the preeminent form of mainstream rock music? Or is this just a natural progression from grunge? I'm guessing that it's the latter, and that these groups are just the next generation of some of the less savory acts that popped up from 92-94, like Alice in Chains, STP, Collective Soul, Filter, Candlebox, etc. If you mark 1995 on your calendar as the year crap broke, that means we're now 13 years into the dominance of this type of leaden, depressive hard rock on mainstream radio. That's pretty remarkable.

DID YOU KNOW: In 2005, North Carolina Representative Walter B. Jones, who championed the Freedom Fries movement, came to believe that the Iraq war had been started without justification and expressed regret about his part in this French fried fiasco. In 2007, he made several public appearances without a flag pin on his lapel. In 2008, he defected to al-Qaeda.

That's why you can't trust exit polling.

Just typing that paragraph about working in fast food agitated me a little. Some wounds never heal. Yeah, I had never heard of am/pm until my recent trip to Seattle, but am now being inundated with commercials for some that are opening in Atlanta. They're promoting some sort of sausage-y hot dogish product that looks potentially lethal.